- Thanks for your hard work at the live!
All: Thanks for the hard work!
- I watched from way back in the standing area, but the view was just amazing! Wasn’t it a great view, when you came out on stage?
Reita: I though: Wow there are so many people. It was absolutely amazing that so many people came for us despite the rain.
- It was a little cold, though.
Aoi: It was pretty cold, really. From the previews night’s rehearsal I knew that, but I still thought that it was really cold.
Reita: Last night and today it rained equally as much.
- Even though there were three talismans for good weather put to the entrance of the backstage room.
Aoi: It feels like that was the reason why it actually rained.
Reita: That was just to calm the staff people down.
Uruha: Those talismans had a dreadful existence (laughs).
- (laughs) But it was still good, wasn’t it? Despite the sound (troubles), and that it rained at an outdoor live, until now, atop all those experiences and expectations towards the sound, it turned out better than I thought. What were the sensations for each of you?
Aoi: If I had to decide between DEAD or ALIVE, then it would be totally ALIVE. While I (usually) feel a little like I do this all by myself in halls, this time this wasn’t the case and it was easy to do. The feeling of doing it together really came up.
Uruha: Two years ago, the outdoor live really was the worst, but with that experience passed, creating the sound this time, I thought, it really didn’t turn out to be the typical outdoor sound. And as about everyone understood this, we came about to do the sound like that.
Reita: As for the monitors it was really easy to do. It was an environment easy to play in. Well, because of the humidity there were a few occasions, like when the neck of the bass was really damp, but I guess that can’t be helped with an outdoor live.
Aoi: Anyway, that was pretty stressful. During the tuning I slipped off (of the strings).
Reita: Because you couldn’t protect it from the humidity…
- How was it for Kai-kun?
Kai: The people for the monitors changed, and as for the monitors it was really easy to do. There wasn’t this feeling of being outdoors and I could hear it directly, just as normal.
- Like doing the live indoors, then?
Kai: Yes, the feeling of doing it just as always was strong.
- And Ruki-kun?
Ruki: Today, I made a mistake with setting the pace.
- That is skipping over too many things at first?
Ruki: Na, after way too long, it felt like doing a PV at first. There was a sense, where I wanted to make the atmosphere a little more cheerful. There was this unspeakable feeling of the first day of a tour, which would be also a point to reflect upon…it felt good doing it, altogether. The view was also great. There are quite a few things to reflect upon. It’s difficult.
- Didn’t it turn out as you wanted it? However, you seemed to be in good form during the MC!
Ruki: No, I wasn’t, not even then. (laughs)
- But didn’t you obtain yourself pretty well?
Ruki: It’s always half and half when it comes to what is myself and what is not. Exceedingly when I concerned myself with [LEECH]. The gap between what I was doing actually, while I kept thinking about what to do next, was way too big.
- It was the first introduction of [LEECH] live, wasn’t it?!
Uruha: The feeling of it was just as feared in the process.
- What kind of fear?
Uruha: It is a new song, therefore the flow wasn’t really going anywhere and I thought that it was surprising how it went.
- The fans were also feeling a little confused now, weren’t they?
Aoi: But they really tried to get along the mood all the way!
Reita: Yes! It was really unexpected how well they went along. I thought that I was probably like a stick standing on stage.
- They matched the rhythm immediately and grasped the essence of it, didn’t they?
Uruha: Well, that’s probably not our strength.
Ruki: Fufufu. Looking straight ahead is.
- And playing itself wasn’t a problem, then? You were recording until pretty recently, too.
Aoi: During recording I sit down, that’s why. Playing before people for the first time, felt good. I was very curious, as to how other people would hear the song. More than playing the live, the original tune is always the objective, which usually hasn’t that flow, however. So I was a little nervous about that.
Kai: The reaction was pretty pleasing. After everyone had heard the first B-melody, the second time was almost perfect then. (laughs). They did quite a few different things.
- They had a great learning ability, didn’t they?
Kai: Yes they did. But honestly, with receiving so much more of a reaction than what I thought, the next tour will be ok then…well, the release is after the tour. (laughs) But I am looking forward and think that the reactions we will receive next time will maybe change since they only heard it once now.
- What was the strategy behind making the new song the second of the set list?
Aoi: The second song is always really ‘hitting’ the audience, doesn’t it? It was pretty daring to put the new song in such an important place, wasn’t it?
- So you wanted to try it for the first time.
Uruha: As for us, the second song on the list takes the place of something that has to swap the audience at once. Would the new song have the power to fit into that position or not, (we wanted to find out)?
Aoi: If it could keep up.
- It turned out an amazing second number, didn’t it?
Uruha: … wasn’t it? (laughs)
- Aoi was the one guitarist having troubles this time. When you returned backstage for a moment, how was the tension?
Reita: But he wasn’t really missing, was he.
Aoi: I was extremely angry at that time.
Uruha: With the Gazette, that certainly wasn’t trouble for the first time and there is really nothing much we can do.
- And then it got even more aggressive after that.
Reita: I always think that the mood after having trouble is really good.
- It seems to be like a feeling to regain ones honour, doesn’t it?
Reita: That could be also the case. Moreover, the fans are facing you then, having warmed up to the situation.
- And after that the production also got more fanatic. With the flames of [DISCHARGE] and such. Although I think, that you probably didn’t see the fire pillars rising up on stage.
Ruki: No, I didn’t see them at all (laughs)
Aoi: At that time I was busy.
Reita: Because you were spinning your head. (laughs)
Uruha: What? Fire pillars?
- Yes, above Aoi-kun.
Aoi: What, there should have been two.
- Eh, was there a failure?
Aoi: The year before last there was also one not working. So this year it was only one?
Reita: There was a misfire, wasn’t there.
Uruha: Really? I didn’t know that (bitter laugh)
Reita: Even so we kept going (laughs).
- Next time it will be successful! (laughs) Looking at it as a whole, what was each of your’s highlight?
Aoi: Even though I am completely full of highlights myself, this time for me it was especially [LEECH]. And then in the middle those three songs following [Guren]. Once those were passed, it became really unpleasant for me. First the sound went off during [Akai One Piece] then the sound went off during [Nausea and Shudder]…I thought that was a good moment to die.
Ruki: Ahahahahahahaha
- Until then the feeling was really consuming...
Uruha: My personal highlight was the three songs from [Guren]. Especially [Kyomu no Owari, Hakozume no Mokushi]. During [Guren] and [ D.L.N.], I felt that the feeling of the fans was pretty much complete and that they had reached a stage of listening very carefully. The impression which is left of that is almost scary. They didn’t miss the mood.
Reita: For me it was also [LEECH] and those three songs. Especially [D.L.N.], which we did after quite some time again, with the acoustic guitar, where I put my heart into meeting it by putting more softness into playing the bass. An obstacle to surpass, still. However, since it was raining I was really thinking too much about whether it was even good.
- I understand. On stage the mirror ball looked like the moon, didn’t it?
Kai: For me it’s the same (as for the others). And also, from [Agony] until the last song, it was a highlight for me with the meaning that I was constantly questioning myself if I could muster up enough strength to do it or not. And then in a very essential moment the stick broke. Within me it seemed like a wide whole opened up…
Reita: Ah, at the beginning of [Circle of Swindler]? At that point you really couldn’t move (laughs)
Uruha: The sound didn’t stop.
- You got the others in trouble.
Kai: It was troubling, wasn’t I? Because I still don’t know about the beginning. On the very first hit the stick broke.
Uruha: Well, from now on we’ll synchronize better with the drums.
Kai: hahaha (bitter laugh)
- (laughs) How was it for Ruki-kun then?
Ruki: For me it was (a highlight) from the first to the eleventh song. Because we easily managed to insert the older songs…
Uruha: hahaha! I You just didn’t remembered them that easily.
Ruki: I didn’t do [Shadow VI II I] and such at all…
- There are lots of things to reflect up on, but for the second half it seemed really good. Today’s [Kantou Dougeza Kumiai], how was it?
Uruha: I enjoyed it.
Reita: Well, it was a little shorter, but at eight o’clock the sound would have been turned off.
Kai: What, it was shorter? It felt like we were doing it just as always.
Uruha: Well, it was enough.
Reita: When I returned to the middle (of the stage) I thought about throwing my bass, but then I already heard “Last!!!!”
Aoi: You couldn’t do it!
Reita: I couldn’t do it. [Actually he said ‘I didn’t do it’, but we did a correction here/(laughs)/note NeoG.]
Ruki: We didn’t have the time we had at Yoyogi, it was more like the regular tour.
Aoi: It’s just an excuse, but we are good guys. We had to take care of the time.
Reita: We properly stuck to the regulations.
Aoi: Because we also care about our surroundings/ neighbourhood.
Uruha: If we had thought about doing it, we could have done it all the way, but we had to consider this.
Aoi: But if you got to that area, its about being comfortable (playing). We did it with a good feeling.
- The last firework was also great, wasn’t it?
Kai: I actually didn’t see a single one of them. I saw just little bits of the very first one, I guess.
Ruki: I only saw it briefly, that’s why I really didn’t understand the atmosphere.
Aoi: It was really not pretty at all!
- That’s not true. It was very well visible form the outer ring of the seats!
Uruha: It was unexpected and I was really wondering about that until the end. There was this bang bang bang, but even though I didn’t see it, I could hear it, which was a bit disturbing.
Reita: I was playing, so I didn’t even hear it.
- (laughs)
Aoi: If it only had cleared up…
Uruha: But with the smoke, we couldn’t see the very far.
- And even more so, after the torches were enflamed during [Kyomu no Owari] you couldn’t really see anything.
Aoi: That was really terrible.
Ruki: I thought it was pretty foggy.
- (laughs) It was really cool, how in the middle of the last fireworks you started with [Anata no Tame no Kono Inochi]!
Uruha: It really would have been a lot more surprising…
Aoi: …if it had cleared up until then.
Ruki: hahahahahahaha
Aoi: That was kinda a difficult live…
Ruki: hahahahahahaha
Uruha: Even though, according to the calculations, if everything had gone right…
Aoi: You mean, that there was no sound?
Uruha: Yeah (laughs) During the intro part of [Anata noTame…] I was only humming then ♪humm humhummhummmm hummmmmm.
- (laughs)!!
Aoi: That’s why nobody understood!
Uruha: And then in middle I heard like “GYYAAA!!”
- So that’s what it was like… (laughs) Well, you can’t really do anything against the weather.
Uruha: I didn’t even see the Fuji once!
Aoi: The atmosphere was really delicious.
Uruha: It was like a reviewing meeting.
Reita: There were also entertaining things! We just couldn’t see them.
Uruha: But honestly, it was really enjoyable. The sound was pretty good, the scale was amazing; it was a good feeling.
- Having overcome this test, means you can look out to the next things!
Reita: Yes, that’s what it is!
Uruha: After a live the things that went wrong are always the subject matter, and because of that we can understand them (for the next time). After a live we usually don’t think that it was actually “Joyful” (laughs). But we’ll make use of it for the next time.
Kai: It was a good experience. Based on that, without fearing what we have learned we will do an outdoor live again. I really like the atmosphere of outdoor lives and I really want to do it again!
- So as it is now, what are each of you going to do tomorrow?
Reita: Probably my body will hurt and I don’t think I will be able to move.
Ruki: My neck is already trembling.
Uruha: Tomorrow I’ll go and enjoy Fuji Q Highland in private.
- Even though you are going home just in the middle of the night?
Uruha: I lied (laughs), I’ll probably sleep the whole day.
Kai: I’ll probably just rest, too.
Ruki: I didn’t cure my cold, yet.
Aoi: I think, tomorrow, tomorrow’s wind will blow.
- (laughs) Then lastly, in one word, please say something about the tour starting in October.
Reita: This time it’s only 12 lives, so it’s not all that long. We think that it is important to make this a very intense tour. It’s held in the big live houses, so please enjoy it without hurting yourself!
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